Elections in 2014
After the Christmas and New Year break we should be getting some polling tonight - Lord Ashcroft at least is promising a new batch of research (and perhaps Opinium will start up their fortnightly Observer polls again - YouGov's daily polling doesn't start again till Monday).
In the meantime, I've updated the site to reflect the elections in the year ahead:
Polls on the European election so far are here, though note the experiences of 2009 when early polls for the European election bore very little resemblence at all to the actual result. We don't know if it was because people didn't really consider European voting intention until much closer to the time, or the increased publicity UKIP got in the run up to the European elections, or because the expenses scandal shook things up, but one way or the other UKIP support massively increased in the run up to the European elections in 2009 and polls conducted more than a month or so before were of little use in predicting them.
On the election guide part of the site I've also added information on the candidates standing so far (Scotland, North East, North West, Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, Wales, Eastern, South West, South East, London)
Aside from the locals on the same day as the European election, the other big election is the Scottish Independence referendum on the 18th September (my birthday incidently - what better present can one get for a psephologist than a referendum for your birthday?). Polls on the referendum so far are all collected here.
